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Beginning on Friday, October 17th, 2014 from 11:59PM EDT to 4:00 AM EDT maintenance will be performed on the database server for UGA's special collections. This is necessary to apply new updates to the server.

The Main and Science Libraries will be closed on Saturday, September 20, for the UGA home game day. The libraries will open with their regular semester hours on Sunday, September 21.
Saturday, September 20 - Closed
Sunday, September 21 - 1PM to 2AM

Personal letters of Abraham Baldwin and William Few, Georgia’s two signers of the U.S. Constitution, are on exhibit at the University of Georgia Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library in observance of Constitution Day, Sept. 17.
Few and Abraham Baldwin, who were close friends, were appointed as two of six state ...

As part of its Fall Lecture Series, the University of Georgia Institute for African American Studies will host a talk on Thursday, September 18, 2014 to mark the publication of Harlem’s Rattlers and the Great War: The Undaunted 369th Regiment and the African American Quest for Equality.
Please join us at ...

The AEON Request System at the Special Collections Libraries will be upgraded Friday, Aug. 29.
Researchers will not be able to request materials while the upgrade is ongoing. It is scheduled to take place at early as possible.
Materials requested ahead of time will remain in the reading room and will be ...

We have updated GALILEO@UGA to incorporate more guidance for users. You will still find the familiar lists of databases for different subject areas, along with the A-Z list of databases and the database name search.
But we have added some things to make GALILEO@UGA more useful:
- Class-Specific Research Guides: Librarians ...

[caption id="attachment_8957" align="alignleft" width="300"] Powell Moore in his office during the Nixon administration, circa 1974[/caption]The Richard B. Russell Library is pleased to announce that the Powell A. Moore Papers are now open for research. The papers capture Moore's nearly five-decade career involved in legislative affairs, public policy and international relations ...

To perform inventory and revise policies and procedures, technology lending will be suspended during the intersession before the start of Fall semester (Aug. 4 - Aug. 17). Lending will resume on the first day of classes, Aug. 18. These two weeks represent necessary downtime to add new equipment to the ...

The current exhibition at the Savannah College of Art & Design, "Jack Leigh: Full Circle, Low Country Photographs, 1972-2004," features photographs and other materials on loan from his collection at UGA's Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
The exhibition is the first museum survey of work by the acclaimed Savannah-based photographer ...